FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Alexis Stoumbelis, Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador Phone: +011 503 7383-4944 E-mail: alexis@cispes.org US unions join May Day March in El Salvador to reject US privatization push May 3, 2013 SAN SALVADOR – An estimated 80,000 Salvadorans representing a wide array of labor organizations, university students, women's organizations ...

CISPES Labor Solidarity Delegates marching on May 1 with banner: "US Workers in Struggle against Privatization!" Yesterday, the organized Salvadoran left came out in force in celebration of May 1, International Workers Day. Over 80,000 members of labor, student, peasant, LGBTQ, feminist, indigenous and environmental organizations, accompanied by the leftist ...

Join US Labor and Take Action against Anti-Worker, Anti-Union, Pro-Privatization Legislation in El Salvador!  While thousands of people take to the streets for immigrant and workers' rights in the US, 70,000+ Salvadorans and CISPES delegates are marching in honor of May Day, International Workers Day, to stop Washington's latest economic disaster from ...

Marchers heading towards the US Embassy. Photo: R.Q. Original article written by Gerson Chávez and published in Diario El Mundo. A hundred unionists marched to the US Embassy in Santa Elena yesterday to demand that US Ambassador Mari Carmen Aponte cease pressuring for the passage of the Public-Private Partnership Law. According to Wilfredo Berríos, ...

Tuesday, March 12, 2013. SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Representatives of US solidarity organizations the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), US-El Salvador Sister Cities, the Joining Hands Network, Voices on the Border and the SHARE Foundation joined hundreds of union activists from the Salvadoran Union ...

Take Action and Sign the Petition Today! Click here for information about our recent Salvadoran Labor Leader Tour  & read on for more about the upcoming May Day Labor Delegation to El Salvador. Today, Salvadoran workers are fighting hard against sweeping US-backed, privatization legislation called the Public-Private Partnership Law, or P3, which would put ...

In El Salvador and in the United States unions and public services are UNDER ATTACK. But in both countries, workers are fighting back! From February 3 to 13, 2013, two leaders of El Salvador's organized labor movement will tour the East and West Coasts of the United States to share experiences, perspectives and ...

US Labor Tour // February 3-13: Salvadoran labor leaders speak out on their campaign to defeat US-sponsored Public-Private Partnership (P3) Law! Online Petition // Sign Today: Tell US Ambassador Aponte to stop pushing privatization on El Salvador! Labor Delegation // May 1: March against US-sponsored privatization alongside 75,000 Salvadoran workers on the CISPES May ...

Jaime Rivera, a long-time leader in El Salvador's union movement and a member of the Electrical Sector Workers Union (STSEL) Executive Board, will be touring cities on the East Coast of the United States from February 3-9, 2013 as part of CISPES' Labor Solidarity Tour. During his visit, Mr. Rivera hopes ...

Alex Gómez, a long-time leader in El Salvador’s union movement and a member of the National Lottery Workers Union (SITRALONB) Executive Board, will be touring cities on the West Coast of the United States from February 3-13, 2013 as part of CISPES’ Labor Solidarity Tour. During his visit, Mr. Gómez hopes ...